Mary Fiala

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We Ran The Numbers, and Your Halloween Costume Already Misses The Mark Big Time

CHICAGO – We’re one month out before the most decked-out, alcohol fueled, party rampage season of the year, and that’s saying a lot for Chicago standards.

Lincoln Park Zoo Hippos Strike, Demand as Much Coverage as Moo Deng

LINCOLN PARK – Annie and Pogo, Lincoln Park Zoo’s beloved pygmy hippos, are making headlines this week as they have vowed to cease all public appearances until they get as much media presence and a

Foxtrot Coming Back, and This Time They Swear They’ve Changed

OLD TOWN – Following a fall from grace of epic proportions, Foxtrot has untucked its foxy tail from between its legs and begun reopenings of stores throughout the Chicago area.

OPINION: A Cicada Weighs In — “I’m Really Going to Miss Our Time Together”

WHEN SWEET SUMMER COMES TO A CLOSE I’M GOING TO BE SO SAD TO BID FAREWELL TO YOU. THIS SEASON HAS BEEN ONE FOR THE BOOKS, TRULY.

City Expands St. Paddy’s Dye To All of Lake Michigan

“What they could never see coming is dyeing one quadrillion gallons of water a bright, resplendent green. That’s right, one quadrillion. That’s a real number, you can check.” 

Woman Misplaces Boyfriend, Accidentally Brings Home Another Man With a Mustache and Chicago Flag Tattoo

“Look, in my defense,” Birchnell, who is being charged with Circumstantial Kidnapping and Stereotyping, “my boyfriend looks exactly like most of the men in Chicago.” 

How Come Everyone Wants to Talk About The Air and Water Show but Not My One Man Show At The Annoyance?

I can’t help but feel like I’m being deliberately upstaged by the ear piercing screech of engines overhead.

fighter planes. inset: an incredulous-looking man with a mustache and beard, in front of a stage at the Annoyance Theatre.

Logan Square Attempts to Top Last Years “Horny” Farmers Market by Rebranding as “Sex Central”

LOGAN SQUARE – Last summer, Logan Square’s historic farmers market was granted the spotlight when they became infamous as “

Lincoln Park Woman Bravely Admits She Doesn’t Like Poodle Mixes

“What does the ‘D’ in doodle even stand for,” she shouted/queried as we ran away. “Dog?”